. >> i hear patty murray and paul ryan are working on some type of budget deal. what can you tell us about it? >> what they're trying to do is there any way we can reform some of the mandatory long term spending programs. hopefully they can come up with a commonsense solution there. >> do you think you'll get something done? >> it's sounding pretty positive. >> you'll go along with the deal that will be presented? >> i'm going to go along with a good deal. >> thank you. 20 minutes after the top of the hour. coming up straight ahead, don't call it a christmas tree. trees are banned and so are the colors, red and green at one school. the lawmakers tries to make sure that never happens. his story was so inspiring it became a hollywood movie, how the guy who cut off his own arm to save his life is behind bars. life is behind bars. what happened? without campbell's green bean casserole. wish you were here. ♪ [ doorbell ] [ gasps ] ♪ [ gong ] [ wisest kid ] m'm! m'm! good! they don't know it yet, but they're gonna fall in love, get married, have a couple ofids, [ c